Trajectories of Drug Use and Depressive Symptoms among Latinx Youth and Sexual Minority Youth.

ABSTRACT: Drug use and depression co-occur and disproportionately affect Latinx sexual minority youth relative to their heterosexual Latinx peers. However, heterogeneity in co-occurring patterns of drug use and depressive symptoms is unknown. The objective of the current study was to identify patterns of drug use and depressive symptom trajectories and examine how these patterns varied between Latinx sexual minority youth and Latinx non-sexual minority youth. Latent class trajectory analysis identified distinct patterns of drug use and depressive symptom trajectories among 231 Latinx adolescents (Latinx sexual minority youth: n = 46, 21.4%; Latinx non-sexual minority youth: n = 169, 78.6%). After identifying class mean trajectories, we examined differences in mean trajectories across g

SUBMITTER: Lozano A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10218419 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature